Dancing and notices fill Elgin area March events
Jessie Lyon joins the army and heads to Fort Warren. The Elgin community promotes a dance at the Elgin opera house with Les Hartman’s WMT band on March 5. Local residents cite family visits, dinners, and weekend travels across Fayette, Cedar Rapids, Manchester, Postville, and other nearby towns, with social gatherings, hospital updates, and a new 1941 Automatic Laundry Queen feature at Feller's Hardware. Louis Amundson reports being drafted and stationed at Fort Harrison after a brief posting at a Madison proving ground.
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Jessie Lyon
Fort Warren
Wye
Elgin Opera House
Wedeetays
Les Hartman
Hollis Finch
Fayette
I Joe Habeger
Ed Medberan
el- Zin Opera House
WMT
Paul Waters
Bonnie Currier
Genevieve Dunkle
D. E. Tinker
Max Thoma
Springville
Lewis Thomas
Ruth Gibson
H. W. Kruse
Park Ridge
Harry Johnson
Marjorie
Mary Williams
Klingman’s Cafe
C. B. Schori
W. C. Falk
Karl Fox
Alex Nichols
Bud Waddington
Cedar Rapids
Jane Lyon
C. J. Robinson
Donna
Manchester
Walter Robinson
Reuben Howard
Clarence Becker
Louis Becker
Postville
Harry ‘Overeen
Elmer Sander
Feller
Hdw
West Elgin
Reuben Lehman
Gertrude Smith
Cicero
Ill
Sam Lehman
Earl Pierson
Hulda’ Tupper
Otis Clothier
Waukegan
J. F. Berndt
Ina Maturetys
Wm. Reardon
Farmers
Thomas
O. J. Olson
Poostville
R. B. Waters
Wm. Ewing
I. D. Moody
Victor
Mr. Moody
Fredericksburg
Watertoo
Sheldon Boyle
Delwe
Church Worship Schedule Tells of Three Elgin Area Services
Methodist Church St Pauls Elgin holds worship at 10 a m with church school at 11 a m Migria Community Church offers church school at 10 a m and worship at 11 15 a m Union Church Clermont invites to 7 30 p m service led by Joseph C Warton minister No other details given.
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St. Paul's
Elgin
Migria
Union
Clermont
Joseph C. Warton
Elgin Baptist Church Events Schedule Recited
Elgin Baptist Church announces Sunday worship at 10 o clock and 2 pm for worship service. Junior meeting also at 2 pm. Wednesday March 6 features Women’s Missionary service at 2 pm. Prayer service at 8 pm and choir rehearsal at 9 pm led by Minister Paul F. Zoschke and pianist Chrystal Miller.
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Paul F. Zoschke
Chrystal Miller
Church Service Schedule and Invitation
The notice lists Lutheran services on March 2 with Norway at 9:45 and 11 o'clock, St. Olaf and Marian English services at 9 and 11, plus Marian 7:30 p.m. Luther League gathering. It invites attendance and welcomes worshipers, signed by Dr. S J Strandford, pastor. Advertising is an investment.
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Norway
St. Olaf
Marian
Luther League
S. J. Strandford
Echo-Sherman Vilmann Claims World’s Biggest Bartender Title
Joliet special photo shows Echo-Sherman Vilmann, billed as the world’s biggest bartender, joking about the largest shirt contest. The seven foot one inch, 330 pound former Racine basketball center attempts the American Institute of Laundering’s famed shirt. Betty Gorsick, at five feet two inches, assists Sherman with a sleeve.
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Betty Gorsick
Sherman
First Five Weeks of 1941 See Iowa Auto Losses Rise
During the first five weeks of 1941 Iowa highway accidents cost about 1 336 000 with 39 fatal crashes killing 42 people and injuring 935 while 5 880 incidents caused only property damage. The state urges drivers to observe signs be courteous and drive to prevent wrecks as the year could bring higher losses. A horse car collision near Sharpsburg damaged both, with no injuries. A bronze plate theft at Asa A Call memorial park in Algona is being investigated after the plate was found loose by the grandson George Call and then fixed by Tom Dailey.
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Iowa
Eugene Murtagh
Asa A. Call
Algéna
Tom Dailey
George R Call
Dailey
Litvinov Excluded From Central Committee In 1930s Soviet Shakeup
Former Russian Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, expelled from the Central Committee, was announced at the All-Union Congress held Friday. He had resigned as Foreign Commissar on May 3, 1935, citing ill health, remaining a noted Bolshivik figure at international conferences. The photo is from 1939.
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Masenw
Maxim Litvinov
Communst Party
Litvinov
Russia
Fly casting on seaplane at New York sports show
Ruth Ownbey and Angela Greene demonstrate fly fishing from the pontoon of an Aeronca seaplane at a New York sports show. The light sea planes, capped at 110 mph and 25 to 30 mpg, appeal to sportsmen for weekend trips and fishing or hunting expeditions near summer homes.
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New York
CFI
Ruth Ownbey
Angela Greene
Aeronca
Soft Water Improves Grinnell Wash Days Now
Grinnell residents benefit as a water softener is installed at the city water plant renovation. The facility is being updated to house the new apparatus, signaling easier laundry days. A county treasurer’s refunding register in Grundy Center remains in use since 1883 and will serve for decades more. Agnes Crowe was home ill on Monday, and Mrs. Ern Meyer of West Union visited the Chapman home. Mrs. Herbert Ash and son Creighton came home Sunday from West Union hospital.
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Robert Benson
Ruby ‘Benson
Helen Reed
L. D. Smith
Elkader
John Falk
Les Hartman
WMT
Elgin Opera House
Donna Wenger
Harold Conner
Ed Wenger
F. E. Kohler
Decorah Hospital
Max Hunsberger
Edna
Maxine
Oelwein
J. H. Wilson
Wadena
Chris Wenger
W. R. Stewart
Lamont
Ed Bolyen
N. M. Fritz
Marie Butikofer
Katie Metzger
Lester
Fred Metzger
Roy Knight
Elaine Zurbriggen
Reuben Hackmann
Clermont
Reuben Wirkler
Monona
Mary Cook
Wm. Belschner
Ray Knight
Orville Hinke
N. W. Evans
Ray Chapman
University Hospital
Iowa City
Grant Dawson
Falk’s
Louis Amundson
Indianapolis
Ind
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Clarence Becker
Town Falls
Louis Becker
Oak Grove
Feller
Hdw
West Elgin
Caroline Miller
W. J. Grove
Eagle Grove
Lutheran Hospital
Fort Dodge
W. Kuster
Wm. Grover
George Nydegger
Dwight Grover
No. 14
Ft. Harrison
Madison
Grinnell
Cily
Grundy Center
Agnes Crowe
Ern Meyer
West Union
C. D. Chapman
Herbert Ash
Creighton
West Union Hospital
Graveside Hope For Exiled Spanish King In Rome
In Rome, former King Alfonso of Spain lay gravely ill in a city hotel after receiving last rites from Catholic priests. Local reports say his condition is critical and the outlook remains uncertain as night fell.
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Rome
Italy
Alfonso
Spain
Hamburger Covers a Multitude of Sins
A public version praises fresh ground beef with no additives or preservatives and vows consistent quality. The advertiser invites readers to order a hamburger, claiming satisfaction from returning customers and urging new customers to try it soon.
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Elgin Baptist Church
Lutheran Church
Junior Brown
Sharpsburg
Elmer Mattson
Stuart
Brown
Litvinoy
Central Committee
White Shirt
Wilson
Sansor
Elgin Clothes Shop
Mel Kohler
Melvin R. Hanson
Peter
Elgin, Iowa
Elgin Furniture Store
F. C. Muehlethaler
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